ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,048, issued on March 25, was assigned to PlusAI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hierarchical vehicle action prediction" was invented by I-Hsuan Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yu Wang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to predicting vehicle actions according to a hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions. The hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions includes a plurality of predefined vehicle actions that are organized to define a plurality of vehicle action sequences. A first vehicle obtains one or more images of a road and a second vehicle, and predicts a sequence of vehicle actions of ...